Greetings from Guelph

[Dallas Brave]

I had to come up to Guelph, Ontario for a meeting yesterday and today. I was racking my few remaining brain cells as to why Guelph seemed familiar and then it dawned on me as we drove by the university tonight. The U of Guelph was one of Bradley's opponents back in the '04-05 preseason. I started to kid a few of the Canucks at the table, but no one remembered. I can't believe 2 years flew by so fast.

[patrick_o'brian]

Re: Greetings from Guelph

I had to come up to Guelph, Ontario for a meeting yesterday and today. I was racking my few remaining brain cells as to why Guelph seemed familiar and then it dawned on me as we drove by the university tonight. The U of Guelph was one of Bradley's opponents back in the '04-05 preseason. I started to kid a few of the Canucks at the table, but no one remembered. I can't believe 2 years flew by so fast.

Isn't Guelph where James Gillingham is from also? I swear it is. Can anyone back me on this one?

[Da Coach]

Hi Dallas-
I was one of the small contingent of Bradley fans who made the trip up to Ontario for the Candian games back in October of 2004. I recall the nice trip we had in our rental car Oct. 10, 2004, from Toronto out to Waterloo (Bradley played Wilfred Laurier University in the afternoon) and Guelph where Bradley played University of Guelph that night. It is a beautiful area with great scenery. And the people there couldn't be nicer.

Guelph is the hometown of James Gillingham. His older sister was a star track athlete at the U of Guelph, and her picture was in their Hall of Fame. I recall James' mother and younger sister were at the gym and watched the game betwen Bradley and U of Guelph. That game was the biggest blowout by Bradley in the 5 game tour. They won easily 71-44, and many of the first string players played very little since they had played a game earlier that afternoon in Waterloo. I recall the campus was very nice, but the gym was small and not as nice as most high school gyms in Illinois. But they had a big new beautiful hockey arena right across the street from the gym. Basketball is a distant second to hockey for winter sports there.

[patrick_o'brian]

Hi Dallas-
I was one of the small contingent of Bradley fans who made the trip up to Ontario for the Candian games back in October of 2004. I recall the nice trip we had in our rental car Oct. 10, 2004, from Toronto out to Waterloo (Bradley played Wilfred Laurier University in the afternoon) and Guelph where Bradley played University of Guelph that night. It is a beautiful area with great scenery. And the people there couldn't be nicer.

Guelph is the hometown of James Gillingham. His older sister was a star track athlete at the U of Guelph, and her picture was in their Hall of Fame. I recall James' mother and younger sister were at the gym and watched the game betwen Bradley and U of Guelph. That game was the biggest blowout by Bradley in the 5 game tour. They won easily 71-44, and many of the first string players played very little since they had played a game earlier that afternoon in Waterloo. I recall the campus was very nice, but the gym was small and not as nice as most high school gyms in Illinois. But they had a big new beautiful hockey arena right across the street from the gym. Basketball is a distant second to hockey for winter sports there.

I thought so! Thanks DC the memory still works. I'm impressed.

[Dallas Brave]

Hi Dallas-
I was one of the small contingent of Bradley fans who made the trip up to Ontario for the Candian games back in October of 2004. I recall the nice trip we had in our rental car Oct. 10, 2004, from Toronto out to Waterloo (Bradley played Wilfred Laurier University in the afternoon) and Guelph where Bradley played University of Guelph that night. It is a beautiful area with great scenery. And the people there couldn't be nicer.

Guelph is the hometown of James Gillingham. His older sister was a star track athlete at the U of Guelph, and her picture was in their Hall of Fame. I recall James' mother and younger sister were at the gym and watched the game betwen Bradley and U of Guelph. That game was the biggest blowout by Bradley in the 5 game tour. They won easily 71-44, and many of the first string players played very little since they had played a game earlier that afternoon in Waterloo. I recall the campus was very nice, but the gym was small and not as nice as most high school gyms in Illinois. But they had a big new beautiful hockey arena right across the street from the gym. Basketball is a distant second to hockey for winter sports there.

It is a beautiful town of about 100,000 and the campus looks very pretty as well. The locals are very proud of the school. I went to the school's web site last night and it indicated that the baskeball team will be playing the NCAA champs Florida in September http://www.athletics.uoguelph.ca/Var...sketball_-_Men